She and Toto ate the last of their bread, and now she did not know what they would do for breakfast.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The description of this unknown savage is the lively portrait of Derar, a name so dreadful to the Christians of Syria.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The hippodrome was already filled with innumerable multitudes; and no sooner did the emperor appear on his throne, than the voices of the blue and the green factions were confounded in the same loyal acclamations.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But you think all you need do to learn accounts is to come to me and do sums for an hour or so, two or three times a-week; and no sooner do you get your caps on and turn out of doors again than you sweep the whole thing clean out of your mind.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

At night she dreamed that he had bitten into her body and that his jaws were dripping.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

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— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

For though its antiquities are not so definite and obviously on show, Shrewsbury, unlike the other, is far removed from the disfiguring industrial atmosphere of the North.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

As soon as the cavity of the appendix is cut off from that of the intestine, it is of course obvious that infectious or other irritating materials can no longer enter its cavity to cause trouble, although, of course, it is still subject to accidents due to kinks, or twists, or interference with its blood-supply; but these are not so dangerous, providing there be no infectious germs present.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

Its outlines are not sharply defined, but it shades off gradually into the enclosing rock.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

At nightfall she disappeared—it is now supposed into the sheltered and almost invisible inlet of Los Pasages, between Fontarabia and San Sebastian.
— from Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

But there are no such depths.
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours."
— from The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty

A consultation was then held; and, notwithstanding some differences of opinion, it was resolved to take the road by Stonecross Green, where they thought they could get information from some friendly cottagers, and thence through Gilbert's Wood towards Shaddoxhurst.
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Brace up, old man, and never say die."
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind